## Bug fixes
- Fixed "file name too long" errors when running matrix jobs with many or
long-valued matrix parameters. Docker volume and container names are now
bounded to a safe length by hashing the full name with SHA-256, keeping
the result well within the filesystem `NAME_MAX` limit (255 bytes) even
after Docker appends its own suffixes (`-env`, `-network`, etc.).
## Upgrade notes
This change renames the Docker containers, volumes and networks created by
the runner. Resources created by a previous version will **not** be cleaned
up automatically after upgrade and will become orphans.
After upgrading, you can remove the legacy resources with:
```sh
# volumes
docker volume ls -q | grep -E '^GITEA-ACTIONS-TASK-[0-9]+_' | xargs -r docker volume rm
# networks
docker network ls --format '{{.Name}}' | grep -E '^GITEA-ACTIONS-TASK-[0-9]+_.*-network$' | xargs -r docker network rm
```
> **Note:** If multiple act_runner instances share the same Docker daemon,
> make sure no runner using the old version is running before executing the
> cleanup commands above.
Fixes#686
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Co-authored-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/853
Reviewed-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: Morgan Peyre <195218+peyremorgan@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-committed-by: Morgan Peyre <195218+peyremorgan@noreply.gitea.com>
Closes#848. Addresses [GHSA-82g9-637c-2fx2](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-82g9-637c-2fx2) and the follow-up points raised by @ChristopherHX and @haroutp in that thread.
The change is breaking only for `cache.external_server` which uses auth via a pre-shared secret.
## How auth works now
1. **Runner starts** → opens the embedded cache server on `:port`. Loads / creates a 32-byte HMAC signing key in `<cache-dir>/.secret`.
2. **Runner receives a task** → calls `handler.RegisterJob(ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN, repository)` before the job runs, defers a revoker that removes the credential on completion. Registrations are reference-counted so a stray re-register cannot revoke a live job.
3. **Job container runs `actions/cache`** → the toolkit sends `Authorization: Bearer $ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN` on every management call (`reserve`, `upload`, `commit`, `find`, `clean`). The cache server's middleware looks the token up in the registered-jobs map: miss → 401; hit → the job's repository is injected into the request context.
4. **Repository scoping** — every cache entry is stamped with `Repo` on reserve; `find`, `upload`, `commit` all verify the caller's repo matches. A job in repo A cannot see or poison a cache entry owned by repo B, even when both reach the server over the same docker bridge. GC dedup also groups by `(Repo, Key, Version)` so one repo can't age out another.
5. **Archive downloads** — `@actions/cache` does not attach Authorization when downloading `archiveLocation`, so the `find` response is a short-lived HMAC-signed URL: `…/artifacts/:id?exp=<unix>&sig=<hmac>`, 10-minute TTL, signature binds `cacheID:exp`. Tampered, expired, or foreign-secret URLs get 401.
6. **Defence-in-depth** — `ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN` is added to `task.Secrets` so the runner's log masker scrubs it from step output.
## `cache.external_server` (standalone `act_runner cache-server`)
Operators set `cache.external_secret` to the same value on the runner config and the `act_runner cache-server` config. The `cache-server` then runs with bearer auth on the cache API and exposes a control-plane at `POST /_internal/{register,revoke}` (gated by the shared secret). The runner pre-registers each task's `ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN` with the remote server before the job runs and revokes it on completion. Same per-job auth + repo scoping as the embedded handler, just over the network.
`cache-server` refuses to start without `cache.external_secret`; runner config load also fails when `cache.external_server` is set without `cache.external_secret`.
## User-facing changes
- **One-time cache miss after upgrade.** Pre-existing entries in `bolt.db` have no `Repo` stamp and won't match any job — they'll be evicted by the normal GC. First job per cache key rebuilds its cache.
- **`cache.external_server` deployments must add `cache.external_secret`.** Breaking change for anyone running a standalone `act_runner cache-server`: set the same `cache.external_secret` in both the runner config and the cache-server config. Without it neither side starts.
- **No config changes required for the default setup.** Runners using the embedded cache server (the common case) keep working without any yaml edits; the auth mechanism is invisible to workflows.
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This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7
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Co-authored-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: Christopher Homberger <christopher.homberger@web.de>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/849
Reviewed-by: ChristopherHX <38043+christopherhx@noreply.gitea.com>
## Summary
Mirrors the GitHub Actions runner behaviour where each `run:` step shows a collapsible **"Run \<command\>"** section containing the script, shell command, and environment variables before the actual step output.
### What changes
- **`pkg/runner/step_run.go`**: In `stepRun.main()`, two new executors are added to the pipeline:
1. `logRunGroupHeader()` — runs after `setupShellCommandExecutor()` (so `sr.cmdline` is already resolved). Emits a `::group::Run <step>` log entry followed by the interpolated script, the full shell command line, and the step's env vars (sorted, internal vars filtered out).
2. The existing execution function now has `defer rawLogger.Infof("::endgroup::")` so the group is closed after the step finishes, regardless of success or failure.
### Env var filtering
Internal runner vars are hidden (`GITHUB_*`, `GITEA_*`, `RUNNER_*`, `INPUT_*`, `PATH`, `HOME`) — only user-relevant vars are shown, matching what GitHub Actions displays.
### Example output
```
▼ Run cargo build
cargo build
shell: bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
env:
CARGO_HOME: /home/runner/.cargo
CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0
CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
<actual build output>
```
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/847
Reviewed-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Reviewed-by: ChristopherHX <38043+christopherhx@noreply.gitea.com>
## Problem
In host executor mode, uses: docker://<image> step actions fail because
act/runner/step_docker.go always attaches the step container to the job
container's network namespace, which doesn't exist in host mode.
### Example
Run following job in host runner
```yaml
jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest-host
steps:
- uses: docker://alpine:3.20
with:
args: echo hello
```
```
Error:
failed to start container: Error response from daemon:
joining network namespace of container:
No such container: xxxxxx
```
This pr allows the docker step in the host mode
## Testing
I tested following steps on host runner and it worked
```yaml
- name: Test azure cli action in host mode
uses: azure/cli@v2
env:
RUNNER_OS: Linux
with:
inlineScript: echo "hello from azure cli"
- uses: docker://alpine:3.20
with:
args: echo hello
```
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Co-authored-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/857
Reviewed-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: Mirko Sekulic <misha.sekulic@gmail.com>
Co-committed-by: Mirko Sekulic <misha.sekulic@gmail.com>
Merges the `gitea.com/gitea/act` fork into this repository as the `act/`
directory and consumes it as a local package. The `replace github.com/nektos/act
=> gitea.com/gitea/act` directive is removed; act's dependencies are merged
into the root `go.mod`.
- Imports rewritten: `github.com/nektos/act/pkg/...` → `gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/act/...`
(flattened — `pkg/` boundary dropped to match the layout forgejo-runner adopted).
- Dropped act's CLI (`cmd/`, `main.go`) and all upstream project files; kept
the library tree + `LICENSE`.
- Added `// Copyright <year> The Gitea Authors ...` / `// Copyright <year> nektos`
headers to 104 `.go` files.
- Pre-existing act lint violations annotated inline with
`//nolint:<linter> // pre-existing issue from nektos/act`.
`.golangci.yml` is unchanged vs `main`.
- Makefile test target: `-race -short` (matches forgejo-runner).
- Pre-existing integration test failures fixed: race in parallel executor
(atomic counters); TestSetupEnv / command_test / expression_test /
run_context_test updated to match gitea fork runtime; TestJobExecutor and
TestActionCache gated on `testing.Short()`.
Full `gitea/act` commit history is reachable via the second parent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude (Opus 4.7) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Morgan Peyre
silverwind
Nicolas
Mirko Sekulic
Michael Hoang
silverwind